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John Tracy Kidder is an American writer of nonfiction books. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his The Soul of a New Machine , about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation. He has received praise and awards for other works, including his biography of Paul Farmer, a doctor and anthropologist, titled Mountains Beyond Mountains .

Kidder is considered a literary journalist because of the strong story line and personal voice in his writing. He has cited as his writing influences John McPhee, A. J. Liebling, and George Orwell. In a 1984 interview he said, "McPhee has been my model. He's the most elegant of all the journalists writing today, I think."Kidder wrote in a 1994 essay, "In fiction, believability may have nothing to do with reality or even plausibility. It has everything to do with those things in nonfiction. I think that the nonfiction writer's fundamental job is to make what is true believable." Wikipedia  

✵ 12. November 1945
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Famous Tracy Kidder Quotes

“… "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.”

Tracy Kidder

Source: Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

“among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all”

Tracy Kidder

Source: Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World

“That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.”

Tracy Kidder

Source: Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World

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